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Does King still write on a typewriter? Or did he upgrade to a PC?

I am often curious how older writers write. I know Cormac McCarthy still uses the same model typewriter he used when he first got started. He actually auctioned off the typewriter he wrote most of his work on to charity then replaced it with the exact same model.

Re: Does King still write on a typewrite? Or did he upgrade to a PC?

I think when he's not jotting down notes on napkins sK is using a word processor. I thought I remembered reading somewhere that at one time his personal computer of choice was a Macintosh. He may use other brands by now, instead. Although, I've heard that once you go Mac you never go back.

Re: Does King still write on a typewrite? Or did he upgrade to a PC?

Originally Posted by AchtungBaby

I've always wondered what the first novel was that he wrote on a computer and not a typewriter? Marsha, you wouldn't happen to know, would you?

I think the first thing he wrote using a word processor was Word Processor of the Gods which came out about the same time as certain publishers who had rejected some of his first submissions began ka-incidentally disappearing.

Re: Does King still write on a typewrite? Or did he upgrade to a PC?

Re: Does King still write on a typewrite? Or did he upgrade to a PC?

Originally Posted by bhamade

I am often curious how older writers write. I know Cormac McCarthy still uses the same model typewriter he used when he first got started. He actually auctioned off the typewriter he wrote most of his work on to charity then replaced it with the exact same model.

Has King said what he writes on nowadays?

The progression was typewriter to Wang word processor to Macintosh computers. Occasionally he starts writing by hand but that's usually only if he doesn't have either his laptop or desktop handy. When he's working from home, it most often is on the iMac and on the road, it's his MacBook laptop.

Originally Posted by AchtungBaby

I've always wondered what the first novel was that he wrote on a computer and not a typewriter? Marsha, you wouldn't happen to know, would you?

I honestly don't remember which was the first on a Mac but it's been about 20 years since he switched over from the Wang and he'd been using the word processor for a while before I started working for him so don't know about that either.